from Indian Country Today
Nearly half of the Jesuit priests or brothers found to be credibly accused of sexual abuse in a 10-state region in the western United States spent time working in Indian schools and missions, according to a new database drawn from Catholic data on abuse.
The new database allows users to track how priests moved within the church and supports allegations that the church used rural tribal communities as dumping grounds for “problem priests,” according to researchers Kathleen Holscher and Jack Downey, who compiled the data.
The database, “Desolate Country: Mapping Catholic Sex Abuse in Native America,” provides public access to records dating back to 1950 of priests and brothers in the Jesuits West Province, which includes Arizona, Alaska, California, Hawai’i, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
To read more of Desolate Country: Mapping Catholic Sex Abuse in Native America and to see the map, click here or follow this link: <https://www.bishop-accountability.org/2022/07/desolate-country-mapping-catholic-sex-abuse-in-native-america/> .
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